"We'll go over this carefully, Mrs.
Baske; it's one of the largest and completest in Pompeii.

Here we are in what they called the atrium." Cecily spoke seldom.

Of course, she would have preferred to be alone here with Miriam; best of all--or nearly so--if they could have made the same party as at Baiae.

At times she lingered a little behind the others, and seemed deep in contemplation of some object; or she stood to watch the lizards darting about the sunny old walls.

When all were enjoying the view from the top of Jupiter's Temple, she gazed long towards the Sorrento promontory, the height of St.Angelo.
"Amalfi is over on the far side," she said to Miriam.